Quotes About Rights

In order to establish peace, you must have fair justice for everyone.

We started the peace process on the basis of land for peace and on the basis of U.N. resolution 242 and 338,1 as well as other international decisions on achieving the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.

Everyone has the right to a peaceful life.

There is no freedom in peaceful slavery.

We have the right to peacefully assemble in the United States.

Every country has the right to nuclear technology as long as they use it safely, peacefully and in a secure way.

I want a country where you can express different ideas peacefully and not be bothered and arrested unfairly for it. I want a country where you shouldn't be scared to say that you are an atheist, for example.

The FBI holds sacred the rights of individuals to peacefully exercise their First Amendment freedoms.

It's like, 'Oh, well of course you want gay marriage, you're gay.' I think when heterosexual people are talking to their peers and they're like, 'This is an equal rights thing,' it's a little bit easier.

We want all LGBTQ kids to grow up in a world where they feel safe and equal to their straight peers.

Believing in the sanctity of life also shouldn't expose anyone to discrimination or penalties for declining to support abortion.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

So many times I've heard people say that the right to marry for gay and lesbian couples won't really change anything other than some legal and financial stuff. It's a dumb argument: those legal and financial effects matter.

Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.

I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe.

Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it.

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.

There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.

All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either.

I can't believe people think they need permission to drive. Or permission to do anything.

A dream role of mine that I'm currently talking to some people about - I'm trying to get an Aaliyah biopic made, but a proper one, and see if we can get the family's permission and get all the rights to all the music.

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.